About Fay Calkins
Lived 1921 – 2010 (aged 88–89). Fay Calkins was a writer.
Fay Gilkey Calkins Ala'ilima (24 September 1921 - 1 August 2010) was an American academic and writer who lived in Samoa. She was the wife of Samoan politician Leiataualesa Vaiao Alailima.
Life and career Calkins was born in Auburn, New York and educated at Oberlin College, Ohio, and Haverford College, Pennsylvania. Their early life together is chronicled in her second book, My Samoan Chief. which later became her unpublished book, Samoa's Changing Chiefdom. After retiring from the NUS, she returned to Hawaii. She died on 1 August 2010.
Works The CIO and the Democratic Party (University of Chicago Press, 1952) My Samoan Chief (Doubleday, 1962) Aggie Grey : a Samoan saga (Mutual Publishing, 1988)
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American academic and writer
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Fay Calkins died in 2010 in Honolulu.
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